Film magazine



Oct, 16, 1934. E. s. HINELINE FILM MAGAZINE Filed Mair 5, 1953 2 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTOR.

071/ Sflznez'ne E d5 [PM M1W A TTORNEYS Patented Dea s, 1934 M 1,977,569

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FILM MAGAZINE Edson S. Hineline, Rochester, N. Y., assignor to Folmer Graflex Corporation, Rochester, N. Y., a corporation of Delaware Application May 5, 1933, Serial No. 669,508

Claims. (Cl. 8817) My present invention relates to film packages graphic apparatus in light-communication. The or magazines, and more particularly aims to procamera and the magazine door or securing elevide such package or magazine of said class which ment 12 may be provided with means for fastenmay be sealed against tampering. One embodiing the latter in magazine-retaining position, as 5 ment of the invention is disclosed, by way of exby eans of One 01 more studs 14 on the camera ample, in the copending application of myself each adapted to extend through a corresponding and one William H. Petit Serial No. 653,426, filed pening in the ma a in d a d p tu d for January 25, 1933, and is there claimedin comt r pt n of a ta n a su as shown bination with certain photographic apparatus. at 5, Fig- 1. 10 The film package or magazine per se is the sole The magazi e fil package p p Comprises invention of myself, the claims to such film packa s n r r pta l sh w as hav tw ayage or magazine per se being contained in the ike ect s 16 a d 7, pp y po and present application. together forming a closed light-excluding con- In the drawings, illustrating, by way of extainer. One section, herein the bottom or hold- 15 ample, one embodiment of the invention, Section has a peripheral D Strip 13 adapt- Fig. 1 is a plan view of a photographic appaed for reception within the other section, herein ratus or camera embodying my invention, includthe cover section-17, to position the two sections ing a film magazine sealed in position for oper- Wi resp t to eac oth r, d Serving 8,150 to ation; seal the joint between them, against the admis- 0 Fig, 2 is a side elevation of the apparatus of sion of light. At an app p position the Fig. 1 but with the magazine removed to show magazine casing is provided with an exposure the film feed and take-up drives; aperture 19, for cooperation with the light-ad- Fig. 3 is an end view of the magazine of Fig. 1, mi g e me o e ph t p apparatus, showing the exposure aperture; said aperture being herein at approximately mid 25 Fig. 4 is a section, upon a larger scale, on the height of one narrow face, and being formed line 4-4 of Fig. 3, showing the film guide, expartly in each of the meeting walls of the two casposure aperture and light tube; ing sections.

Fig. 5 is a side view of the magazine of Figs. The film magazine or package is constructed 1 and 3, with portions of the cover broken away and arranged to receive a, supply of sensitized 30 to show the internal parts; surface or film and to support the same in por Fig. 6 is a section on the line 6-6 of Fig.- 5, sition for feeding. As illustrated, it accommothrough the take-up reel, looking in the direction dates a film roll, of the apertured positive-feed of the arrows; type of film, of the desired diameter for any par- Fig. 7 is a section, upon the enlarged scale of ticular photographic apparatus. Referring par- 3 5 Fig. 4, on the line 7-7 of Fig. 5, looking in the ticularly to Fig. 5, we have there shown a film 9 direction of the arrows; supply reel at 20 and a film take-up reel at 21.

Fig. 8, on the scale of Figs. 4 and 7, is a section These reels, which may be of duplicate construcon the line 8--8 of Fig. 5, through the intermittion, are removably rotatably positioned within tent feed or drive wheel; and the magazine in any suitable manner, as by a 40 Fig. 9 is an inside view of a portion of the short hub 22 at one of their faces, see Figs. 6 I

cover including one of the brake devices for the and 7, the adjacent flat face of the holder secfilm reels. tion 16 of the magazine having corresponding The film package or magazine of my present bearing apertures 23. The take-up reel 21, at invention, adapted for sealing against tamperthe lower portion of Fig. 5, is provided with a 45 ing by unauthorized persons, is capable of use in coupling pin 24 for drivingly connecting it to the many different relations, and with photographic slotted end 25 of the shaft of the intermittent apparatus of various sorts. For the purposes of drive mechanism of the photographic apparatus; illustration we have, in Figs. 1 and 2, represented see Fig. 2. aphotographic apparatus or camera at 10, hav The magazine as herein shown is equipped with 50 ing an image or light admitting element 11. The a feed wheel or measuring roll 26, Figs. 5, i and, camera desirably is equipped withamagazine door 8, for intermittently moving the film strip from. or other closure member 12, herein shown as the supply reel and advancing it past the ex= hinged at 13, whereby the film magazine may be posure aperture 19, toward. the take-up reel. This removably held in operative position with respect iced wheel is rotatabiy mounted on the magazine to the camera, to constitute therewith a photoat convenient point adjacent the supply reel. no

As shown in detail in Fig. 8 the feed wheel 26 comprises a tubular shaft 27 having a flanged head 28 seated in a countersunk recess 29 in the outer face of the magazine holder section 16. The wheel proper or drum portion is fitted onto the shaft .27, after the latter has been inserted through a bearing aperture in the magazine section 16 concentric with said recess 29. Said wheel 26 has at its lower portion, Fig. 8, a sleeve 30 adapted to abut the inner face of the casing, opposite said countersunk recess 29, thereby retaining the feed wheel in position axially. Circumferential series of spurs or points 31 are provided on the feed wheel, for engaging suitable marginal openings in the film F, to insure positive feeding of the latter. Intermittent or other drive for the feed wheel is accomplished through suitable driving connections, illustrated as a coupling pin 32 fitted diametrally into the hollow shaft 27 of the feed wheel and engageable with the slotted end of the feed wheel drive shaft 33 seen at the upper right portion of Fig. 2. It is thus seen that the film receptacle or magazine is equipped not only with means for supporting a sensitized film, in roll form, for feeding, but also with film feeding and take-up means, adapted for releasable driving association with a camera or photographic apparatus, whereby the mag-- azine may be installed and exteriorly operated to feed the film but may itself remain continuously closed and sealed.

. The fllm F coming from the supply reel 20 passes about the feed wheel 26, the spurs of the latter engaging in the film marginal openings, and thence past the exposure aperture 19. onto the take-up reel 21. As best seen in Fig. 4, and also in with a. light tube 34 surrounding the exposure aperture 19 and held in fixed position in any suitable manner, as by the screws 35.

Film guiding means is provided opposite the exposure aperture, at the inner end of the light tube 34. Said means herein comprises an inner guide strip 36 secured on the magazine section 16 as by the .foot 37 and screws 38, and a 00- operating outer guide strip 39 mounted at'the inner end of the light tube, as by the screws 40. Said guides are spaced to receive the film F beween them and guide it in a straight path past the light tube. The outer guide '39 is provided with an exposure aperture 41, Figs. 4 and 7. Said guides are of such length and suificiently close together. as to exclude light from the interior of the magazine, other than directly onto the film at the back of the light tube. The inner guide preferably has a turned flange 42 at its free edge, see Fig. 7, to facilitate insertion of the film in loading the magazine.

The film F is preferably additionally guided, intermediate the feed wheel 26 and the exposure guides 36, 39, and also intermediate the latter and the take-up reel 21, by suitable roller guide means. Said guide means each comprises a rotary sleeve or roller 43 received on a post 44 mounted in the main wall of the magazine section 16 and held thereon as by a lock ring 45 received in a corresponding annular recess in the outer end of'the post. At the base of each post 44 is a flange 46 adapted to engage the adjacent edge of the film and guide the latter transversely. One of said roller guides 43, at the entrance end of the main exposure guides 36, 39, is disposed with its periphery tangential to the plane of the film path through said exposure guides, at the right of said plane, as viewed in Fig. 5, while the other Figs. 5 and 7, the magazine is provided roller guide 43, at the exit end of the exposure guides, is similarly disposed at the opposite side of the film path, to conduct the film angularly onto the take-up reel 21.

-The film magazine or package is desirably equipped with means for preventing overrunning or back lash of the film reels. One form of means for said purpose is illustrated in plan in Fig. 9, and in section in Fig. 6. It comprises a plural-point brake or friction element 47, in this instance integrally formed, of resilient sheet metal. Said element comprises a plurality of spring arms 48, four being illustrated, radiating from a central box 49 and having their outer portions revcrsely turned, in the general form of a reverse letter S, as viewed in Fig. 9. Said spring arms 48 project transversely, inwardly of the magazine from their base 49 and have their free ends bent back, outwardly of the magazine, providing friction areas 50 at their highest portions, adapted to engage and bear resiliently against the adjacent side face of the corresponding reel 20 or 21, see Fig. 6, whereby the reel is held against undesired turning movement. Each friction element is secured in position beneath a stud 51 passed through its base and fastened in the magazine cover 17, said stud serving as an end bearing for the hubs of the corresponding reel 20 or 21.

In accordance with the invention the magazine ,is provided with means whereby it may be secured in closed position, and sealed against opening or tampering by any unauthorized person, without leaving evidence thereof. In the form illustrated, one of the magazine sections, herein the holder section 16, has a post 52, Fig. 7, fixedly mounted substantially centrally of the magazine, extending transversely and adapted, in the closed position of the parts, to project outwardly through a corresponding aperture 53 in the other section, herein the cover section 17. A portion of the latter, surrounding the aperture 53, is set in, as at 54, Figs. 6 and 9, providing a recess 55 at the outer face of the cover.

Within said recess is a securing member, shown as a latch 56 pivoted on the cover 16 as at 57 and having an arcuate notch 58 concentric with its pivot. The outer end of the securing post 52 has a peripheral groove 59, Fig. '7, for receiving the latch, as the latter is turned into locking position beneath the head 60 of the post. The notch portion 58 of the latch fits snugly about the reduced portion of the post, at the base of the groove 59 in the latter, so that it, and the post head, substantially completely seal the magazine against entry of light or dirt in the region of the magazine fastening means.

Means is additionally provided for retaining and sealing the latch in cover locking position.

For this purpose the outer portion of the latch is upset, forming an car, as at 61, adapted to abut a similar ear 62 formed on or secured to the cover 17, within the recess 55. Said ears are apertured, at aligned points, forthe reception of a lock or seal such as illustrated at .63, Fig. 5.

The ear 61 on the latch serves also as a finger 4 piece for operating the latch. When the magazone has been loaded, closed and sealed, as by said seal 63, it may not be subsequently opened, for the purpose of tampering with the film, without leaving evidence of such tampering, inasmuch as the seal must first be broken. It will be noted that the cover. locking means, including the latch '56 and related parts, as well as the seal 63 itself, are all adapted to lie within the recess 55 of the cover, so that there are no parts projecting beyond the plane of the cover, thus leaving the magazine or film package as a compact, fiat-faced device of regular and symmetrical formation.

My invention is not limited to the particular embodiment thereof herein shown and described by way of example, its scope being set forth in the following claims:

1. A film package or magazine comprising opposed tray-like container sections together forming a closed light-excluding receptacle, externally operable film supporting, feeding and takeup means, a transversely extending member on one section, internally thereof, an indented portion on the other section and having a receiving formation therein for said transverse member, and a latch device cooperable with said trans-' verse member and having all external parts confined within said indented portion.

2. A film package or magazine comprising opposed tray-like container sections together forming a closed light-excluding receptacle, externally operable film supporting, feeding and takeup means, a transversely extending member on one section, internally thereof, an indented portion on the other section and having a receiving formation therein for said transverse member, a latch device cooperable with said transverse memher and having all external parts confined within said indented portion, and sealing means for said latch device also receivable within the confines of said indented portion.

3. A magazine for containing a'photographic film placed therein in an unexposed condition and adapted, while wholly contained within said magazine, to be mechanically fed past an exposure opening of the said magazine, said magazine containing therein a light tube past the inner end of which the film is fed, whereby the film is at all times wholly contained within the magazine, said magazine comprising holder and cover sections together constituting a receptacle substantially rectangular throughout in both longitudinal and transverse cross sections, said receptacle containing film supporting, feeding and take-up means, one or more plane faces of said magazine having openings therein for the reception of film operating means carried by the camera, the external faces of said magazine being therefore without projecting operating parts, and means for securing said holder and cover sections in closed position.

4. A magazine for containing a photographic film placed therein in an unexposed condition and adapted, while wholly contained within said magazine, to be mechanically fed past an exposure opening of the said magazine, said magazine having an exposure aperture 19 and a light tube 34 surrounding said aperture and past the inner end of which tube the film is adapted to be fed, whereby the film is at all times wholly positioned within said magazine, said magazine comprising holder and cover sections together cone stituting a receptacle substantially rectangular throughout in both longitudinal and transverse cross sections, said receptacle containing film supporting, feeding and take-up means, one or more plane faces of said magazine having openings therein for the reception of film operating means carried by the camera, the external faces of said magazine being therefore without projecting operating parts, and means for securing said-holder and cover sections in closed positions.

5. A magazine for containing a photographic film placed therein in an unexposed condition magazine, to be mechanically fed past an exand adapted, while wholly contained within said magazine, to be mechanically fed past an exposure opening of the said magazine, said magazine containing therein a light tube past the inner end of which the film is fed, whereby the film is at all times wholly contained within the magazine, said magazine comprising holder and cover sections together constituting a receptacle substantially rectangular throughout in both longitudinal and transverse cross sections, said receptacle containing film supporting, feeding and take-up means, one or more plane faces of said magazine having openings therein for the reception of film operating means carried by the camera, the external faces of said magazine being therefore without projecting operating parts.

6. A magazine for containing a photographic film placed therein in an unexposed condition and adapted, while wholly contained within said posure opening of the said magazine, said magazine containing therein a light tube past the inner end of which the film is fed, whereby the film is at all times wholly contained within the magazine, said magazine comprising holder and cover sections together constituting a receptacle, said receptacle containing film supporting, feeding and take-up means, one or more faces of said magazine having openings therein for the reception of film operating means carried by the camera, the external faces of said magazine being therefore without projecting operating parts, and means for securing said holder and cover sections in closed position.

7. A magazine for containing a photographic film placed therein in an unexposed condition and adapted, while wholly contained within said magazine, to be mechanically fed past an exposure opening of the said magazine, said magazine containing therein a light tube past the inner end of which the film is fed, whereby the film is at all times wholly contained within the magazine, said magazine comprising holder and cover sections together constituting a receptacle, said receptacle containing film supporting, feeding and takeup means, one or more faces of said magazine having one or more openings therein for the reception of film operating means carried by the camera, and means for securing said holder and cover sections in closed position.

8. A film package or magazine comprising opposed tray-like container sections together forming a closed, light-excluding receptacle, externally operable film supporting. feeding and takeup means, a transversely extending member on one section, internally thereof, and indented portion on the other section and having a receiving formation therein for said transverse member, and securing means cooperable with said" transverse member and having all external parts confined within said indented portion.

9. A film package or magazine comprising opposed tray-like container sections together forming a closed, light-excluding receptacle, externally operable film-supporting, feeding and take-up 14 means, a transversely extending member on one section internally thereof, an indented portion on the other section and having a receiving formation therein for said transverse member, securing means cooperable with said transverse memher and having all external parts confined within said indented portion, and sealing means for said securing means also receivable within the confines of said indented portion.

10. A magazine for containing a photographic 15(1) and take-up means, and film guiding means to guide the film in a substantially straight path past the inner part of the light tube, one or more faces of said magazine having one or more openings therein for the reception 01' film operating means carried by the camera, and means for securing said holder and cover sections in closed position.

EDSON S. HINELINE. 

